Senior Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: Primarily remote in the DC metro area, with occasional onsite meetings as needed. U.S. citizenship and an active DoW Secret or higher clearance are required.

Company

hirify.global delivers secure technology and mission-critical solutions for government customers.

What you will do

• Design, secure, modernize, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services supporting AI capabilities across DoD IL2 through IL5/IL6 environments.
• Architect secure CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, automated testing, vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, provenance, attestation, and policy-as-code.
• Establish secure container orchestration and runtime standards using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code and configuration management solutions with Terraform to automate provisioning and reproducible environments.
• Implement identity, access, compliance, observability, monitoring, logging, incident response, and reliability practices, including RMF, STIG, ADFS/SAML, and least-privilege controls.
• Advise government stakeholders and delivery teams, establish reusable platform standards, make architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, systems engineering, or related disciplines.
• Deep hands-on experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, and related technologies, improving automation, deployment frequency, and delivery reliability.
• Strong expertise in software supply-chain security, including vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, provenance, attestation, and policy-as-code.
• Proven experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, Terraform, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
• Experience designing, securing, modernizing, and troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure, including networking, application gateways, API management services, and microservices architectures.
• Working knowledge of RMF, STIG compliance, vulnerability management, and secure DevOps practices in DoD IL2 through IL5/IL6 environments.
• Experience with identity and access management, including ADFS/SAML, least privilege, authentication, and authorization.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, reliability practices, AI-enabled workloads, or LLM foundation model testing.
• Technical leadership, architecture decision-making, reusable engineering standards, client-facing communication, advisory skills, mentoring, and the ability to explain trade-offs and collaborate across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required. CompTIA Security+ CE or another DoD-approved IAT Level II certification must be held or obtained within 30 days of hire.
• An Associate- or Professional-level cloud certification from Microsoft Azure, GCP, or AWS must be held or obtained within 30 days of hire.

Nice to have

• AI platform security and enforcement architecture, including mediation and control-plane patterns, prompt-injection defenses, workload identity federation for AI agents, DLP, output governance, and provenance.
• CI/CD integration with SonarQube, Trivy, Cosign, automated testing, static code analysis, quality gates, and security scanning.
• AI development and platform tooling experience, including PyTorch, artifact and corpora registries, secure software packaging, and dependency management.
• Legacy platform modernization, cloud-native rearchitecture, infrastructure optimization, Zero Trust, secure distributed systems, hybrid cloud connectivity, and cloud identity federation.
• Service-level objectives, infrastructure reliability standards, operational improvement strategies, and federal or DoD mission-critical platform experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible PTO and all federal holidays off.
• Health, dental, vision, FSA, 401k with employer match, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Professional development through training, certifications, conferences, paid cloud developer accounts, and referral bonuses.
• HQ perks include parking or metro reimbursement, lunches, and nitro coffee.
• Annual social events, including hirify.global Week, a hackathon, and a charity golf tournament, plus access to Washington Capitals and Nationals tickets.